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Scam landlord forced to pay compensation

STUDENTS swindled by a rogue letting agent have now got their money back nearly five years after the scam.

Zulfiqar Hussain took deposits and a month’s rent from the seven students so they could live in an East Oxford house. But when they came to move in, they found the house was not in Hussain’s care.

Hussain – who founded Charles Lawson Lettings in Cowley Road in 2005 – admitted seven counts of engaging in an unfair commercial practice after the incident in 2009 and was ordered to pay the students £8,167 in compensation.